On 6/4/2010 4:52 AM, SharkD wrote:
> Yes, I meant while rendering, sorry! I'm trying to use Object Blender in
> conjunction with CityGen to create a city that is wrapped inside a
> cylinder. Normally, the scene renders in about 5-10mins, but when using
> the bent macro I think it rendered one line every hour! (1024x512px)
>
> This is way too slow, so an alternative (and probably better) option
> would be to rewrite CityGen to create buildings in the appropriate
> shapes and dimensions (i.e. with sloping sides).
>
> But this is also a lot of work, so I decided to "fake" everything and am
> instead just using thin strips of normally proportioned buildings and am
> rotating them around the z-axis so that their placement corresponds to a
> cylinder. Hopefully the result is sufficiently convincing.
>
>
> Mike

It also ate up all my RAM!


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